contumaciousness

"The charge against you," explained the judge, "is contumaciousness in that you still insist on coveting a property which is claimed by royalty, under the divine right of queens."

Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

A doctrine of election from which universal grace is eliminated, necessarily leads to despair or to contumaciousness and carnal security.

Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

State with characteristic contumaciousness would not repeal.

John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series 1888

The sight of what he was about, and of the tender way in which he was handling the child, drove all remembrance of his heresies and contumaciousness in the matter of psalmody out of her head.

Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859

Satiety comes of riches, and contumaciousness of satiety.

Pearls of Thought Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

If such an expedient is ever to be had recourse to, it can only be in cases of contumaciousness and rebellion; and then the instructor cannot too unreservedly say to himself, "This is matter of deep humiliation to me: I ought to have succeeded by an appeal to the understanding and ingenuous feelings of youth; but I am reduced to a confession of my impotence."

Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries 1831

These symptoms of contumaciousness were nevertheless borne by the Baronet without complaint, --

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

Prevesa illustrates for us more than any other action the difficulties with which the path of the partisan leader in these days must always have been filled; and how it was that personal ascendancy was the only force to which such a leader had to trust Sheer dominance of the minds, the wills, and the bodies of others had placed Kheyr-ed-Din where he was; all his life he had commanded undisciplined pirates, and yet now, when he was the properly accredited officer of a mighty monarch, when he might have expected far more discipline and subordination than had ever been his lot in the past, he was met with a contumaciousness which he was unable to quell, and was forced into taking steps which, in his own unequalled knowledge of war, he knew to be doomed to disaster.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

"Bid Alice Mount tell Master Ewring there's like to be a writ out against him for heresy and contumaciousness toward the Church.

The King's Daughters Emily Sarah Holt 1864